Central Election Commission finds opposition offers “constructive”

Mikalai Lazavik, secretary of the Central Commission on Elections and Referendums of Belarus, thinks offers of the democratic forces on improving the electoral procedure are constructive.

He said it in the interview to BelaPAN on 7 April.

31 March the democratic forces presented six draft regulations on improving the electoral procedure to the Central Election Commission. The documents touch the next questions of the electoral laws: process of formation of electoral commissions; nomination of observers and their rights; procedure of vote counting; holding public propaganda campaigns and agitation via media; more concrete laws on activity of members of an election commission. Viktar Karnyenka, deputy head of the “For Freedom” movement, said at the press conference in Minsk “the democratic forces give a chance to the authorities to hold the election, the result of which will be accepted by the international community.”

M. Lazavik said the draft regulations were received by the Central Election Commission in the end of the last week. “Cursory reading of them allows to suppose the most of the offers are constructive,” he stressed.

The secretary of the Central Lection Commission said the legal department of the commission dealt with considering the draft regulations. In particular, they will conclude whether these drafts meet the electoral laws and the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus.

M. Lazavik noted the Central Election Commission will “consider attentively offers of the democrats” during the work on accepting the regulations.